Identify Assumption

Question 1

The correct answer to assumption questions will often be…

Answer 1

Obvious / uninteresting / not earth shattering

Question 2

Negation technique for assumption questions

Answer 2

1. Identify conclusion and author’s evidence.
2. write down negation of each answer. can put ‘it is not the case’ in front of each sentence. for answers that already have ‘not’ delete the not
3. eliminate choices that do not hurt the argument

Question 3

Incorrect assumption answer choice #1

Answer 3

The incorrect answer choice will support the wrong conclusion

Sometimes, Critical Reasoning incorrect answer choices will take important words or concepts from the stimulus and swap these with seemingly similar stand-ins that do not actually mean the same thing.

Question 4

Incorrect assumption answer choice #2

Answer 4

The incorrect answer choice will have effects that are the reverse of what a correct answer would do. They would weaken the argument.

Question 5

Incorrect assumption answer choice #3

Answer 5

The incorrect answer choice will provide an explanation for something discussed in the passage.

Question 6

Incorrect assumption answer choice #4

Answer 6

The incorrect answer choice will state a conclusion based what is said in the passage

Question 7

Incorrect assumption answer choice #5

Answer 7

The incorrect answer choice will introduce a better or alternative plan

A plan does not have to be the best possible plan or only possible plan in order for it to work.

Question 8

Incorrect assumption answer choice #6

Answer 8

The incorrect answer choice will support the conclusion but is not an assumption on which argument depends

Question 9

The correct answer to an Assumption question can be composed of information that would weaken the argument combined with the word “not.”

Answer 9

The correct answer to an Assumption question can be composed of information that would weaken the argument combined with the word “not.”